Meh

Lately I’ve been finding EVE getting less and less fun. Many people who I knew quit weeks or months ago, I’ve had nothing but constant setbacks in which cases I lost a Raven to a level 4 mission, and in a strange turn of events, my scorpion to Concord. I’m trying my hand at an Appocalypse battleship now, this of course means I need to train up skills I didn’t previously have as a missile user, the training to fly the ship -WELL- will take about 2 months, I’ve been sitting in station doing nothing, with occasional mining, I haven’t done any pvp for 2 weeks, getting bored :/. I might go back and try WoW again, or try something new, not sure yet.

-Zxyrox

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Funny you write this today, when I was feeling the same way this morning. When I look at the MMO industry right now, all I see is a thinly desguised effort to take something fun and stretch it out, but not so far that you don’t notice the dimished level of fun being provided. Over the weekend, EVE felt just like Progress Quest to me, watching my numbers get bigger while I could do nothing to affect it.

These games tend to be the most fun right when you start out and are still learning stuff.

I’m still learning the basics of EVE, and see before me a vast array of future virtual financial endeavors. Right now, I’m doing the WoW / Eve juggling act. WoW for my pvp, Eve for my entrepreneurship. It seems to be working decently… for now.

What’s the next big thing that will transcend everything we now know of?

DnD Online?

NWN 2?

… the Matrix Online? (joking, of course).

Something completely different, or a rearrangement of what’s already commonplace, but just better?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not leaving EVE. I recognize what is there and what I can do, it’s just that right now for what I’m doing it is mostly sitting in a station. I’m planning on starting my own corporation soon so if anyone wants in on starting one up from the beginning, hop into the KTR channel over the next week or so and we’ll get it going. Unless someone talks me out of it.

I’ll also be playing WoW off and on for the variety and break I get from EVE. Z, send me your in-game name via email and I’ll try to hook up with you. I have characters from the low levels up to 30 or so.

Might take you up on that KTR corporation thing. Killing NPCs in a neverending effort to get enough cash for my cruiser is definitely sapping my will to live.

Something I’m surprised nobody’s tried yet (or at least I haven’t heard of it) is to carve out their own space empire out in 0.0 space. To see if they and a few hundred of their closest friends can’t provide the basic service of pirate clearance and bringing hangar thieves, etc to some sort of rough justice. i.e. the minimum Hobbesian requirements of the state.

Goes to show exactly how much of an EvE n00b I am. At any rate, are some of the powers in these regions actually enforcing ‘Law West of the Pecos’, or does the color just indicate which brand of pirate will most likely be podding you?

Well, if you travel in those areas and are not on friendly terms with the corps/alliance that is in charge, you may very likely get blown up or at least chased out by real live people. The NPC rats out there have no care who you are, they will fight anyone.